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Anything on the Comcast certified list will do. I got a refurb Arris 6190 and get 400 out of it. No problem, reliable and low latency. It isn’t going to be supported forever, but nor will any modem. I paid about $35, easy to provision with the (very mediocre) Comcast app.
Maybe. You’ll need to check to see if the cabling is set up for Ethernet or Telephone. Most houses have it set up for telephone. A tester can help validate the Cat wiring situation.
“MoCA” allows you to repurpose legacy coax tv cabling for computer networking.
Big streaming services use distributed servers. They likely have a copy of their streaming services in each city or even in your local ISP’s data center. This saves everyone significant bandwidth costs. A few hundred TB of storage for their most demanded content is cheap money.
To be clear, a switch will not give you these things.
- no additional data.
- no additional IP addresses.
If your home router is “dropping bands”, it is likely that the power adapter has weakened and can no longer deliver enough amps to the device to keep the radios operating properly, or not enough power to keep the CPU from losing bits and crashing (LEDs on, but not reliably functional).
I’d replace the power adapter with one that can deliver more amps. These adapters have to deal with every power transient and are often powered up for years. And they are often mediocre.
With that I’d go with something like the Deco X20. They are affordable and support wired backhaul. They are easy to install and are very hands off. It is easy to add more nodes.
Only two radios within each unit, but you won’t have the mesh wireless backhaul “using up” the 3rd radio.
Sure, you can consider using MoCA, which is for networking over legacy coax cabling.
It’s too bad that you couldn’t get the installers to install the fiber run into the basement too. For home networking purposes, it can be convenient to have all the services drop to the same utility area and never land inside the living space.
That will work fine. Of course you will have to open your http port, and if your http server (or something inside of it) has a vulnerability then it could be compromised. So risks do remain.
I have a similar situation (60 or so feet) and am able to get a Deco X20 mesh system to work fine. Not the most expensive or with the most radios, but it serves me well in this scenario. I didn’t even try hard to “dial it in”.